Planning Activity
For this activity, you will gather research sources for the Rogerian Argument Essay and modify the annotated bibliography you created for Unit 1.
Please review any notes I may have provided on your previously graded annotated bibliography and apply these suggestions to avoid repeat errors.
Use the OCCC library and/or Google Scholar to choose reliable, academic sources. For research help, start with the OCCC library videos located on the Great Resources page.
For the Rogerian Argument essay, and this bibliography assignment, use the same topic you used for your Classical Argument essay; however, expand the focus of your research in two ways:
- to educate yourself about alternate/opposite perspectives on the issue
- to discover and communicate the state or national impact of this issue.
You may continue to use any sources from your existing Annotated Bibliography that are still useful to you; however, you must end up with a minimum of four scholarly sources that you will use in your Rogerian Argument Essay.
(Do not resubmit the same annotated bibliography you submitted in Week 2. This bibliography must be modified/updated, and your sources must tie to the Rogerian Argument Essay.)
For this activity, you will gather research sources for the Rogerian Argument Essay and modify the annotated bibliography you created for Unit 1.
Please review any notes I may have provided on your previously graded annotated bibliography and apply these suggestions to avoid repeat errors.
Use the OCCC library and/or Google Scholar to choose reliable, academic sources. For research help, start with the OCCC library videos located on the Great Resources page.
For the Rogerian Argument essay, and this bibliography assignment, use the same topic you used for your Classical Argument essay; however, expand the focus of your research in two ways:
- For this activity, you will gather research sources for the Rogerian Argument Essay and modify the annotated bibliography you created for Unit 1.
Please review any notes I may have provided on your previously graded annotated bibliography and apply these suggestions to avoid repeat errors.
Use the OCCC library and/or Google Scholar to choose reliable, academic sources. For research help, start with the OCCC library videos located on the Great Resources page.
For the Rogerian Argument essay, and this bibliography assignment, use the same topic you used for your Classical Argument essay; however, expand the focus of your research in two ways:
- to educate yourself about alternate/opposite perspectives on the issue
- to discover and communicate the state or national impact of this issue.
You may continue to use any sources from your existing Annotated Bibliography that are still useful to you; however, you must end up with a minimum of four scholarly sources that you will use in your Rogerian Argument Essay.
(Do not resubmit the same annotated bibliography you submitted in Week 2. This bibliography must be modified/updated, and your sources must tie to the Rogerian Argument Essay.)
- The topic used for your Classical Argument essay is the same topic you will use for the Rogerian Argument essay. Once you are familiar with the goal of a Rogerian Argument and the Rogerian Argument outline, you will need to do additional research to prepare to write this essay, starting with modifying your annotated bibliography.
- Re-examine your existing annotated bibliography and decide where you need to do more research to fill in the gaps of your knowledge of the issue on the state/national level, and to have a balance of evidence for supporting both sides of the issue as well as your proposed compromise.
- Use the OCCC library databases to gather as many additional sources as you will need, keeping in mind that this essay requires a minimum of 4 sources and that you can continue to use any of your existing sources that remain useful for this essay. Within the library’s website, the “Gale: Opposing Viewpoints” database is a good place to start for Rogerian argument research materials. Note that its purpose is to provide multiple viewpoints on each topic, which is the goal of your research.
- Add your new sources to the bibliography, completing the citations and annotations in the same way you did when you first compiled your bibliography in Unit 1.